Just got my hands on Halo 2 for PC - can't begin to tell you how horrible it is. I really really loved the first Halo for PC - I still play it for a little bit just about every week.This is dreadful - sucks big moose. How do I begin - it is a kludge of epic proportions.Let's start with the obvious - graphics are less than impressive - we all knew it or heard it but what they may not have told you is the graphics are worse than the first game!Now on to the little surprise - conrols are objectionable. If anyone has had the displeasure of trying to configure the controls for BF1942 you know the drill - every key you want to assign is mapped somewhere else so you can't assign it until you track down where they thought the control should be and then change it but of course that key is already used somewhere else and so on and so forth - might as well give you an option of no keys assigned - not sure why no one thought of that. But then again - anyone remember how impressed with how easy it was to control anything and everything in Halo1 - you could use the mouse for almose everything and just a few other keys could get you through the entire game - I only use back, grenade, switch grenade and pickup weapon - not really difficult - for some reason you need a 217 key keyboard to play this game - I'm sure I'll remember WTF I assigned all those keys to in the heat of battle.Question does this mean Vista is required for highly difficult to control games with really bad graphics? Excellent marketting MS!

For anyone interested, among the many things gimped in this version of course their is no coop mode. I guess the 12 interns they drafted to slap this together couldn't figure that one out, just like they couldn't figure out simple control options or decent graphics